This guest post is from Bill McKibben who is the co-founder of the grassroots climate group 350.org, and Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College. Nothing tests a relationship like home renovation (well, maybe twittering crotch shots, but I mean for ordinary folks). Fixing the kitchen, putting in a new bathroom: “It can bring up core […]
Entries Tagged as 'President Barack Obama'
In the Fixer-Upper with Barack Obama
June 15th, 2011 · 2 Comments
Tags: Energy · political symbols · politics · President Barack Obama · renewable energy · solar · Solar Energy
The White House’s Energy-Dumb Policy and Tone-Deaf Politics?
March 30th, 2011 · 6 Comments
Later today, President Barack Obama will give a speech at Georgetown University focused on Energy Security. Based on a press teleconference Tuesday afternoon with White House staff, the appropriate way to characterize what we heard is that the speech will promote energy dumb policy that is politically tone deaf to the need for real leadership […]
Tags: Energy · environmental · President Barack Obama
President Highlights Refrigerators to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
February 7th, 2011 · 1 Comment
Today, in a gesture that legitimately frustrated many, the President walked across Lafeyette Park to give an address to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. There the President was, smiling and thanking for an introduction a man, Tom Donahue, who has worked hard to destroy President Obama and to undermine President Obama’s agenda. The President’s speech […]
Tags: economics · Energy · energy efficiency · President Barack Obama · refrigeration · Secretary of Energy Steven Chu
Getting to a better building …
February 3rd, 2011 · 1 Comment
Construction and use of buildings account for a major share of global warming emissions. Depending on how one calculates, allocating roughly 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to this built infrastructure is roughly correct. Heating … cooling … lighting … building materials … etc, it all adds up (and up … and up). […]
Tags: building green · clean energy jobs · climate change · electricity · emissions · Energy · energy efficiency · environmental · Obama Administration · President Barack Obama
One of the First Lady’s SOTU health-insurance guests a sustainability example for business community
January 26th, 2011 · Comments Off on One of the First Lady’s SOTU health-insurance guests a sustainability example for business community
First Lady Michelle Obama had an interesting mix of Americans in her box for the State of the Union speech. Among them was an Oregon businessman: Jim Houser, Portland, OR Jim Houser and his wife have owned an auto repair shop in Portland, Oregon for over 25 years, and they don’t want to lose valuable […]
Tags: Energy · Obama Administration · President Barack Obama
Why a Sputnik moment?
January 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment
In the State of the Union address, President Obama referred back to President Kennedy’s call for America to go to the moon. Half a century ago, when the Soviets beat us into space with the launch of a satellite called Sputnik¸ we had no idea how we’d beat them to the moon. The science wasn’t […]
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Jobs! JOBS! JOBS!!! (revisited … again …)
January 25th, 2011 · 2 Comments
Since before the 2008 election, the core challenge for the incoming President was clear: JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! Yes, we were amid a collapse of the economic system, it required stabilization. JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! Yes, our energy situation was (is) a mess and the climate is boiling. JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! Yes, our political system is broken. […]
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“Model of a modern American President” and the move to a centrist bent …
October 18th, 2010 · Comments Off on “Model of a modern American President” and the move to a centrist bent …
Does this capture the Obama presidency? “model of a modern American President. A liberal one at first but now it seems I have a centrist bent …” “Centrist”, sadly, seems defined in rather conservative terms as there has been such movement to the right in the Overton Window due to decades-long investment by such true […]
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Are we “renewing” a misguided “commitment”?
September 7th, 2010 · Comments Off on Are we “renewing” a misguided “commitment”?
Yesterday, President Barack Obama announced a $50 billion investment in the nation’s transportation infrastructure with an infrastructure investment bank to come to support future investments. There is much of value to this program, from the very simple reality that there is a huge back-log of investment requirements to repair the nation’s infrastructure (let alone bring […]
Tags: Energy · Obama Administration · President Barack Obama · transportation
Two out of three ain’t bad …
July 26th, 2010 · Comments Off on Two out of three ain’t bad …
When it comes to environmental and energy cartooning, there is no other major outlet’s cartoonists who comes close to matching the knowledgeable and insightful cartooning that Tom Toles brings to the pages of The Washington Post. As commented before, With Toles, we don’t know whether to laugh or cry. But, he last won the Pulitzer […]
Tags: political symbols · President Barack Obama · Washington Post